New facts blast CP's Devey affair

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all you can. Post your donations to : HOSPITTAL I WAS shattered when Batchelors offered €3,000 to end the strike? This was the headline of an 'exclusive' statement to the Tory Sheffield Star' on Wednesday by Terry Devey, the ex-convenor who accepted the pay-off.

Devey's statement is no doubt in- " tended to justify his own conduct and to place all the blame on other leading Communist Party members.

But he succeeds only in confirming that the whole sequence of events was the direct consequence of Stalinist policies in thé unions, and it was carried through by leading CP members.

Devey begins: When we knew the DEP officials had been called in, the strike committee had a long meeting to consider all the possible offers ..! This implies that the DEP was called in heads of the strike committee.

Now a statement issued by three member: of the strike committee confirms this. The say:

'Mr Caborn asked DEP officials to intervene without our knowledge. we had nown, we would have opposed the idea. W hought the strike was going well and tha we would force the firm to take Terry Devey back after Christmas.' FIRST NAIL So the first mail is firmly driven in.

This pay-off settiement, inspired by a government department, in absolute accordance with Tory anti-union laws, was initiated the leading CP union official in the Sheilield area, by his running to the DEF without informing, let alone consulting, the men on strike. 'reply' to Jevey, and th OVER 12,000 Steel Corpora- that Caborn's capitulation wa todd yesterday that they may tion workers the CP's capitulation all face the dole if they oppose a productivity deal or stage account:

In a New Year message to he set Bad con, secret part workers in the Corby steel and tube works and its associated ore quarries, Mr W. H. Crawford, resident director, says that the entire works may close if costs are not cut and more efficiency introduced me that I should refuse the during the coming year. money at all costs.

This threat of mass unemployment comes at a key stage in the negotiations over a major productivity and jobevaluation scheme, known

I told him I would do whatever the strike committee decided I should. Then I was told I would be an embarrass ment to some people in the parion. I offered my resigBracken and Devey, to gether with Caborn, are the rotten fruits of Stalinism's subordination of all principle to their rotten alliance with 'left' bureaucrats in the unions.

Bracken, who advised acceptance, was appointed fulltime Party organizer after many years' membership of the Party branch in Ambrose Shardlows, for years sup posedly the pride of the whole industrial organization of the His advice to Devey is the result of that training and is no different from his participation in the sell-out over the victimization of Shardlow's steward Roy Wilkinson in 1967.

It is not just individuals, but the Stalinist party which is responsible, with leaders like Ramelson and Howard Hill out in front.

EXPLAIN

Hill wants to emerge with 'clean hands", but why does he not condemn Caborn ?

Is it not because he proposes to continue with the same policies in the unions that produced Devey and Bracken? For that matter how